[Mageia-dev] Fw: Re: Problems with Gnome 3

Fri Jun 17 15:58:19 CEST 2011

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+Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:26:20 +0200
+From: Wolfgang Bornath 
+To: Dick Gevers
+Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3
+
+
+2011/6/16 Dick Gevers :
+> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:58:18 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote about Re:
+> [Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3:
+>
+>>2011/6/16 Christiaan Welvaart:
+>>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Thorsten van Lil wrote:
+>>>
+>>>> Am Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2011, 19:21:40 schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> I'm using KDM as well, but the problem is not the restart of the x
+>>>>> server - it is the unavailability of a shutdown/restart dialogue in
+>>>>> the menue, task bar, systray, wherever, which is annoying.
+>>>>
+>>>> Yeah. I noticed that too. There is only log off and suspend.
+>>>> As moblin also lacks in such a shutdown function, I have the bad
+>>>> feeling that
+>>>> it's not a bug, but i "feature".
+>>>
+>>> Unlike the 'gnome shell', the gnome 3 panel does have a Shutdown item in
+>>> the user menu (but no Suspend).
+>
+> Press 'Shut Down' and you see suspend, hibernate, restart, cancel, shut
+> down
+
+Well, I have to give credit to the Gnome project: their documentation
+is quite up-to-date!
+
+The official way to shutdown/reboot from gnome-shell is actually
+logging off via user menue, then select shutdown or reboot in the
+context menue in the login screen.
+
+BUT:
+Open the user menue and then press the ALT key - the "Suspend" option
+changes to "Power Off" !
+Or, even faster: In "System settings -> Power" change the action for
+"Press power button" to "Shutdown" (values translated from German, so
+they may be a bit different)
+ - you get a dialogue with options [shutdown, reboot, cancel], if you
+do nothing the system shuts down in 60 seconds.
+
+http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/ - recommended read!
+
+-- 
+wobo
+